Before it allows staging of equipment at its park, Sarasota County wants additional recourse if Lido Beach building erodes shoreline. Both City Attorney
and Manager argue the permit to dredge is replete with protections, remedies and monitoring and County refusal would cost taxpayers $1 million.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is performing the planned $22.7 million Lido Beach renourishment project, dredging sand from Big Pass and placing three groins on the southern end of Lido Beach, and says the plan will not harm either the pass or Siesta Key Public Beach. At a Sept. 18 City of Sarasota […]

This photo of the newly restored North Shore beach was taken in September 2011 and shows the escarpment. CREDIT: Karen O’Dowd The following letter was written about the North Carolina shorelines: North Carolina law (G.S 113A-115.1) prohibits the use of groins — steel, rock or wood walls built perpendicular to the beach in order to trap […]

The north end beach will soon be receiving new sand. The dredge Atchafalaya is on its way from New York to the Port of Tampa where it will undergo final inspections Monday, Feb. 28, by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. According to Director of Public Works Juan Florensa, if it passes inspections, the Atchafalaya will then be moving to Longboat Key